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The Realist Liberal Democracy and Its Policies Toward Individual Liberties THE REALIST LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS POLICIES TOWARD INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES by Jesse L. Rostveit A thesis submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Global Security Studies Baltimore, Maryland May 2015 © 2015 Jesse L. Rostveit All Rights Reserved Abstract When the Arab Spring began in late 2010 and continued into 2011, a rash of debate erupted in political science and international theory regarding the likelihood of a wave of liberal democracy spreading throughout the Middle East. As was the case with the fall of communism and the anticipated wave of liberal democracy, Arab Spring analysis mostly failed to capture or even acknowledge what a liberal democracy is or how it behaves, particularly in policies towards individual citizens. In the absence of widespread accepted theory regarding state domestic policies, the aim of this thesis is examine empirical data regarding Liberal and Realist theory in International Relations to help understand the relationship between today’s liberal democracies and their citizenry. The author combines empirical and theoretical research to uncover that liberal democracies today operate firmly within realist theory in both policy formation and practice. By identifying that liberal democracies operate today in line with realist theory, this thesis provides a series of considerations for United States policy makers and political scientists when analyzing, state currently considered to be liberal democracies, as well as those that are emerging. It offers areas of specific focus for U.S. policy makers to consider in terms of investing political and economic capital in encouraging liberal democracy. Within the context of the policies of liberal democracies toward their individual citizenry, the first chapter investigates realist theory and the nature of the relationship between the liberal democracy and human rights policies. Using empirical research, this chapter reveals that today’s liberal democracies represent realist theory and violate human rights, in the interests of state security. The second chapter reveals today’s liberal democracy ii policies towards internet freedom and exposes that, in line with realist theory, state interests have taken primacy over individual liberties. Lastly, the final chapter offers an in-depth examination of religious policy in liberal democracies by focusing on the decision-making process of two post-Soviet emerging liberal democracies. This chapter finds evidence supporting realist theory in terms of the state’s focus on preserving its own power over the protection of individual religious liberties. Thesis Advisors: Chapter 1: Dr. Leila G. Austin Chapter 2: Alexander T. Alden Chapter 3: Dr. Ramez Abbas, Dr. Mark Stout iii Table of Contents 1 Introduction 10 Chapter 1: The Relationship between Humans Rights and Liberal Democracy: Empirical Evidence to Support Liberal or Realist Theory? 12 Literature Review 19 Theory and Hypothesis 19 Methodology 29 Case Study Data and Analysis 31 Discussion 33 Conclusion 37 Chapter 2: The relationship between liberal democracy and internet freedom? 39 Literature Review 53 Theory and Hypothesis 53 Methodology 59 Case Study Data and Analysis 61 Discussion 64 Conclusion 66 Chapter 3: The relationship between religious policy and liberal democracy? An Analysis of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan during the transition to democracy 69 Literature Review 76 Theory and Hypothesis 77 Methodology 87 Case Study Data and Analysis 95 Discussion 99 Conclusion iv References 102 Appendix 1: Combined Political Terror Score Human Rights Record and Freedom House Liberal Democracy Comparison Chart 107 Appendix 2 - Combined International Telecommunications Union Penetration Rate, Freedom House Internet Policy Freedom Rating 110 Bibliography 119 Biographical Statement v Introduction The Arab Spring began on December 17, 2010 when a 26-year-old roadside fresh fruits and vegetables salesman in rural Tunisia decided that he had enough of his own government’s oppression. Mohamed Bouazizi was, by all accounts, a quiet and friendly man whose only interest that day was earning enough money to support his widowed mother and six siblings.1 While preparing to sell his produce, Bouazizi was approached by a government inspector who asked Bouazizi to either produce a permit or a bribe if he wanted to continue with his business. When he refused, the inspector slapped him.2 Publicly humiliated, Bouazizi elected to march down to the nearest municipal office and, in a now infamous single act of defiance, he set himself on fire.3 He died a few weeks later. The Tunisian population erupted in outrage and by January 14, 2011, the Tunisian government was overthrown.4 In the immediate aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, predictions began to pour in from scholars of International Relations (IR) theory, attempting to predict what the impact of the Tunisian revolution would be. Most liberalists predicted that the Arab Spring would eventually result in the spread of a wave of liberal democracy across the Middle East, an area that previously had been largely resistant to any form of democracy at all.5 For the realist, on the other hand, the impact of the Arab Spring would be muted, 1 Guy Roz. "The Arab Spring: A Year Of Revolution." NPR. December 17, 2011. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/17/143897126/the-arab-spring-a-year-of-revolution. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 "Tunisia Swears in Interim Leader." Al Jazeera English. January 16, 2011. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/01/201111513513854222.html. 5 Laura Guazzone. The Arab State and Neo-liberal Globalization the Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East. Reading, UK: Ithaca, 2009. 1 mostly because, rather than embracing liberal democracy, states would place greater emphasis on maintain power and would not bow to the international pressure that was a result of the turmoil that gripped Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and later Syria.6 What is most interesting about the analysis that followed the Arab Spring was that, in the rush to predict the chances of the spread of liberal democracy throughout the Middle East, little attention was paid to understanding what a liberal democracy even is today, and more importantly, how a liberal democracy behaves towards its own citizenry. You see, the relationship between the government and its citizenry was at the heart of the Arab Spring. It is what caused Mohamed Bouazizi to decide that he had no better option in front of himself, than death. To be clear, this thesis uses the questions surrounding the Arab Spring as the impetus for the research but is not an investigation of the Arab Spring itself. Here, we are interested in the broader questions with regard to theory and practice. Specifically, in IR theory today, liberalism and realism are two predominant schools of thought in terms of categorizing, explaining, and understanding why and how every state in the world operates in the global sphere. However, there are no widespread accepted theories to explain how each state in the world calculates its policies towards its own citizenry. Nothing solidly answers whether countries that are viewed as autocracies internationally really behave as autocracies in policies towards their own citizenry or whether liberal democracies actually enact domestic policies that are truly in line with how a liberal democracy is expected to operate. In the absence of such theories, this thesis sought to 6 Zachary Keck. "Realism and the Arab Spring." The Majalla Magazine. July 3, 2012. Accessed March 28, 2015. http://www.majalla.com/eng/2012/07/article55232816. 2 uncover what is considered a liberal democracy today and how a liberal democracy operates in terms of its policies toward its citizenry using the existing liberalist and realist theory as a baseline and guidepost. It is incredibly important for U.S. policy and decision makers to understand what a liberal democracy is today and how one behaves because the U.S. is world’s foremost proponent of the global spread of liberal democracy. The U.S. spends countless dollars each year on a foreign policy, which the U.S. State Department declares is focused on promoting “democracy as a means to achieve security, stability, and prosperity for the entire world; assist(ing) newly formed democracies in implementing democratic principles; assist(ing) democracy advocates around the world to establish vibrant democracies in their own countries; and identify(ing) and denounce(ing) regimes that deny their citizens the right to choose their leaders in elections that are free, fair, and transparent.”7 It is also important for policy makers to understand that, just because the state declares itself to be a liberal democracy, or is at least behaving like one in the international arena, its domestic policies might not necessarily reflect that status and that bears closer scrutiny. In The Democratic Century, Lipset and Lakin remarked that there are just about as many definitions of liberal democracy as there are scholars studying it.8 So began the challenge of this thesis. How is liberal democracy defined today? Some would probably simply identify a liberal democracy in much the same way as U.S. President Abraham 7 "Democracy." U.S. Department of State. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.state.gov/j/drl/democ/. 8 Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M Lakin. The Democratic Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 19 3 Lincoln did: government which is “of, by, and for the people.”9 While this simplistic definition is indeed open to criticism, this thesis remedies the problem through the empirical data of one of the most widely used assessments of liberal democracy, the annual global survey conducted by the U.S.-based independent watchdog organization, Freedom House but also by crosschecking that survey with data available from the Polity Project, an independent organization founded by Political Science Professor Ted Gurr, formerly of George Mason University and the University of Maryland.
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